Marvin Knopp

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Marvin Isadore Knopp (born January 4, 1933 in Chicago , † December 24, 2011 in Boca Raton ) was an American mathematician who dealt with modular forms and their applications in analytical number theory .

Knopp studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a bachelor's degree in 1954 and a master's degree in 1955. He received his doctorate there in 1958 under Paul Bateman ( Construction of certain automorphic forms of non-negative dimension ). In 1958/59 he was a research mathematician at the Space Tech Labs and in 1959/60 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study (as well as several times afterwards, such as 1975, 1978, 1988). In 1960 he became an assistant professor and later professor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison . In 1963/64 he was a research mathematician at the National Bureau of Standards. From 1970 he was a professor at the University of Illinois (Chicago Circle) and from 1976 at Temple University . There he was a colleague of Emil Grosswald , with whom he worked.

He was visiting professor at the University of Basel in 1968/69 , at Bryn Mawr College in 1988/89 and at Ohio State University in 1979 .

He dealt with automorphic forms and Eichler's cohomology (after Martin Eichler ), uniformization and Riemann surfaces, modular forms in analytical number theory.

He was co-editor of the Ramanujan Journal.

He had been married since 1957 and had four children. One of them is the pianist Seth Knopp.

Fonts

  • with Bruce Berndt Hecke's theory of modular forms and Dirichlet series , World Scientific 2008
  • Modular functions in analytic number theory , American Mathematical Society 2008 (first Chicago, Markham Publ., 1970)
  • Theory of area , Markham Publ., Chicago 1969

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Mathematics , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
personal data
SURNAME Knopp, Marvin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knopp, Marvin Isadore
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 2011
Place of death Boca Raton